The Yale Library Associates

The Yale Library Associates was founded to support and strengthen the Yale libraries. Members are invited to lectures, exhibitions, openings, receptions, performances, and symposia throughout the year. Topics range from ancient texts to modern literature and music, and members are encouraged to share their interests with others. Twice yearly, each Associate also receives Nota Bene, the newsletter of the Yale University Library, and the Yale University Library Gazette, containing informative articles about the Yale collections and news of gifts and purchases.

Since 1930, donations to the Yale Library Associates in the form of membership dues, individual gifts of money or books, and bequests have been essential in adding books and other research materials to the Yale Libraries. Recently, the income from funds established by the Library Associates has aided the acquisition of materials so varied as a hand-written musical score by Charles Gounod, an illuminated sixteenth-century Persian manuscript, an eighteenth-century Russian volume incorporating elaborate plates of the plan of St. Petersburg, and one of the three remaining printed copies of the nineteenth-century German children’s book Max and Moritz by Wilhelm Busch. In honor of the Associate’s 75th anniversary in 2005, the Celebration Fund was created, which gives much-needed support for cataloguing and preserving the collections and providing worldwide access to some of Yale’s great riches through digitization.

If you are interested in joining the Yale Library Associates, the annual dues are $50 for individuals or couples, $100 for patrons, and $25 for students. A Gazette subscription is $20 per annum without membership benefits.

For more information, please contact:

Rebecca Martz
Yale Library Associates
(203) 432-2969
rebecca.martz@yale.edu